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How Self Funded Health Insurance Works

Self-funded health insurance lets employers pay claims directly, capture savings when employees stay healthy, and see exactly where every dollar of spend goes.

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Specialty Prescription Drugs

Specialty drugs are the fastest-growing line item in employee benefits. A self-funded plan gives you the visibility and levers to manage the spend.

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Self Funded Employers Insights

Insights from self-funded employers on what works: claims transparency, vendor flexibility, and clinical care management that actually moves the cost

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Keep Premiums Affordable

Keeping premiums affordable starts with claims transparency and ends with structural cost containment. Self-funded plans are built for both.

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Data & Performance
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Healthcare Cost Containment

Healthcare cost containment finds waste, removes it, and keeps outcomes intact. Self-funded plans give you the claims data to do

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Cost Containment Self Funding

Self-funding gives you the control, claims visibility, and flexibility to attack the cost drivers that fully insured plans actively hide

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Cost Containment Strategies

Effective cost containment starts with claims data, clinical care management, pharmacy optimization, and direct primary care partnerships working as one

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Healthcare Cost Savings

Real healthcare cost savings come from claims transparency, smart vendor choices, and proactive clinical management. Self-funding makes all three possible.

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Launch Wellness Program

Employers can use wellness programs to improve employee health while controlling cost. Here’s how to launch a well-being program that

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Self-funding means an employer pays for their employees’ healthcare claims directly instead of paying fixed premiums to an insurance carrier.

A medical group captive is a self-funded model where small and mid-sized employers join together to access financial advantages, share risk and gain greater stability.

Stop-loss insurance protects self-funded employers from large or unexpected claims. It caps financial risk so one high-cost event doesn’t significantly impact your overall healthcare spend.

Health insurance costs rise due to increasing healthcare prices, higher utilization, and lack of transparency in traditional models. Learn how self- funding through a captive can help offset these trends.

Cost containment includes strategies that reduce unnecessary healthcare spending while maintaining quality care. Read how tactics like claims analysis, preventative care, and pharmacy cost management can reduce spend.

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